Darn it, if I was working Fanime this year, I'd lug one or two of my rosemaries up there for you! But alas, this year we're taking off. :/
Ixtapa peppers? Sounds interesting! I only manured one bed this year (the one I'm putting the corn in), but all the others I've been digging in about an inch of compost, some blood meal, and some bone meal. Followed by topping everything off with a couple inches of straw. So far everything seems happy.
I'm hoping that this year we can rebuild the damaged brick bed along the front of the house so I can plant stuff in it. Which will also involve finally painting the stucco along the front of the house before I plant; it's an almost perfect color match for the rest, but the caulk in the cracks shows dark. Of course, since it's along the front, Wonderful Husband doesn't want it to be too obviously food crops. He's ruled out squash and melons. I'm considering making it an acidic bed filled it with rhubarb and blueberries and whatever else goes well in there... that's not too obvious, right? :)
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Ixtapa peppers? Sounds interesting! I only manured one bed this year (the one I'm putting the corn in), but all the others I've been digging in about an inch of compost, some blood meal, and some bone meal. Followed by topping everything off with a couple inches of straw. So far everything seems happy.
I'm hoping that this year we can rebuild the damaged brick bed along the front of the house so I can plant stuff in it. Which will also involve finally painting the stucco along the front of the house before I plant; it's an almost perfect color match for the rest, but the caulk in the cracks shows dark. Of course, since it's along the front, Wonderful Husband doesn't want it to be too obviously food crops. He's ruled out squash and melons. I'm considering making it an acidic bed filled it with rhubarb and blueberries and whatever else goes well in there... that's not too obvious, right? :)